Position desk??? Hah hah.

We all kinda thought you liked that smell, but as a side note - maybe you've just become one of the old farts.

My hiring process?

Take, say...six check airman and put them in six rooms. Call in 36 applicants for an interview. Give each check airman six candidates to interview in the morning. Give each check airman 30 minutes with the applicant. Then, each check airman takes his/her six applicants to lunch. After lunch, the check airman invites as many of the six back to a sim ride in the afternoon. Those that get a thumbs up by 5PM are hired.

I don't believe in accruing points for being a member of a club/association, and I certainly don't think 20 job fair appearances is worth anything. Have a good interview with a trusted check airman, have a good lunch, then take a hop in a sim. No HR required/needed.

We don't have HR in the room when we do our simulator briefs, pre-departure briefs, sim checks, long haul trips, and they certainly aren't invited to the bar for debrief after a long day, so why exactly do we need/value their input? The only time HR is around is when something's wrong. Someone getting disciplined... I think HR should handle benefits and that's about it. But, if there is a lesbian pilots association is it possible to join that as an honorary member or as a supporter?

Speak softly, and carry a sturdy pair of rose colored glasses.

Baseball,
I agree they should continue to improve the hiring process. But it may be a function of simply being too manpower intensive to do it, and methods like the one you propose might require too many man-hours of line Captains.
My friend is a new hire and quoted 1000 pilots a year from 2017-2019. That is a manpower intensive hiring process.
I'd like to know how many are interviewed each year so I could figure the success rate. Even with a 75% hire rate, that's 1400 interviews to accomplish each year to get ~1000 pilots.

Good...then make more Captains. That's how this stuff works.

Easy there speed racer. I wasn't referring to the PILOTS, though on reading it again now I can see how it came off that way. I was referring to the fact that the last 16 years in this industry has SUCKED for all of us and it's really nice to have some positive momentum. In no way, shape or form was mine a post to infer that our pilots were anything short of heroic for making it through the past 16 years of crap. I sat next to countless guys/gals getting furloughed, bumped, and stagnated and it makes me absolutely thrilled every time I see a bid come out now to see those same names going to the widebodies, upgrading, etc.

I was merely referring to the fact that unlike buscappy, I would rather have a new hire who is genuinely happy to be here than one who isn't.

I'm bummed that folks would ever think that I have anything but the utmost respect for EVERY pilot who safely endured the last 16 years at this airline, carrying the water while our management continuously crapped on us, our families, and our customers. I guess I need to consider my tone in future posts if that's the vibe I'm putting off.

My farts smell like roses!!!!

No way dude! I'm still rockin the concert t-shirts and the diamond earring on layovers.

Oh, wait....

My back hurts (freaking guppy), my belly is getting large, I can't hear (freaking guppy) and my nose and back hair can be braided. Yup. I'm officially old.

Thanks and I fully agree with what you said. My apologies for my tone.

Just finished up 'Bus school and can't wait to floss 'n' fly that mofo in cooly quieted & comfortable wall-to-walled carpeted shiztyle!